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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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